Allied's Internship Report

My internship experience was experiential, very educational, and stressful at times. I will never be able to thank you enough, Dr. Wigley, because of you, I was given the opportunity to ask about Allied’s internship program when they were our guest speaker in our Intro to PR course of fall semester 2015. Summer of 2016 I was interested in attaining experience in the real world of PR, so I had originally conversed with former Senior Publicist, Kelsey of Allied’s Hispanic division because I was very intrigued and knew I always wanted to have a profession where I could utilize my bilingual expertise. I emailed her my resume and later received an interview request with Tonya. It ended up being a group interview, which ended up going well for me because I answered every question she asked the group. She appointed an induvial assignment to be completed within a week. I was a nervous wreck prior to starting the assignment for a couple of reasons, one, the assignment was executing a short campaign of an upcoming film—in which I was still in lower PR division courses, and second, I had to nail the assignment because it’d be my first potential internship. After a week-long of research and writing my campaign plan and submitting it, I receiving an email from Tonya congratulating me for passing the assignment and becoming a summer intern at Allied—I was stoked and extremely excited!
That summer internship was educational on pitching, how …show more content…
Tonya had interviewed multiple candidates for the position, but none seemed to have to perfect fit, Ashley mentioned to Tonya the conversion her and I had during our costume tour event. In February, Tonya if I wanted to interview for the Publicity and Promotions Coordinator and to be honest, I was very nervous of acquiring such a huge role while finishing my last semester of college—but I went ahead and interview and obtained the